In early June, a fire broke out in a still-unfinished building at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York, exposing just how little the local fire department knew about what it was walking into. Firefighters reportedly found no working alarm, no suppression system, and three dead hydrants; the safety documents they’re legally entitled to see reportedly burned up in the blaze.
Steve Matisz, chief of the Barker Fire Department, said his crew went into the building “kind of blind,” facing heavy black smoke from chemicals they couldn’t identify because the safety sheets meant to inform them had apparently burned up. “It’s been a difficult situation,” Matisz said. He wasn’t sure what to think about the claim that the safety sheets had burned in the fire.
It's a boondoggle run by shell companies and we'll all pay for the losses.
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FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d
Sounds like these shitholes are susceptible to fires... That's useful info.
iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
I don't think that'd be the key takeaway thing from that article. That's something we already know anyway. You don't even need to start the fire, you only need to stop the cooling for a couple hours.
The biggest issue is they're not even built to any safety standard and they don't answer to any regulator. They could all be using lead-painted asbestos or whatever concoction they'd come up with to make it all cheaper, and not even the firefighters got to check on this.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
"And all the lighting is Radium paint so we can use more power for the servers" "And how much do you pay your workers?" "Pay?"